Unit B – Story Characters

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how authors use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to word roots, match the correct determinants to nouns and link sentence clauses using the conjunctions based on The Angel of Nitshill Road, Anne Fine.

Explore how authors describe and use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to roots, match determinants to nouns and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses

Lesson One : Word Sums
Identify and record changes that can happen to the spelling and meaning of different word roots when adding the prefixes in and im

Lesson Two : Word Determinants
Select and record how to use the correct determinants that should precede different nouns beginning with a range of vowels or consonants

Lesson Three : Sentence Links
Practise using conjunctions to link different sentence clauses about some of the characters that feature in a story that takes place in a school

Lesson Four : Character Lists
Select and make collections of vocabulary words that can be used in sentences with matching conjunctions to describe characters in a story with a familiar setting

Lesson Five : School Report
Select and record a list of vocabulary words that can be used when composing a report to describe a character from a story with a familiar setting to illustrate their impact on the narrative
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Grams and Kilograms Measurements
Practise measuring, recording and calculating measurements in mass when working with and converting units in grams and kilograms
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World Animals
Identify and record how to use the correct determinants before nouns in sentences about animals that live in different habitats around the world
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Determinants Vowels and Consonants
Investigate and record how to compose sentences when using the correct determinants before nouns to match their initial vowels or consonants
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Weather Events
Investigate how to add and punctuate fronted adverbials in model sentences explaining when, how or where something happened in the weather